I'm moving into a new place soon and virgin media 50MB is available there. Off topic: Does anyone know what standard install times are?
I'm not an expert with networking by any means but here is what I've devised so far with little knowledge:
Note: everything should be cabled in via ethernet pref on a gigabit network apart from the laptop which will be wireless.
There isn't a firewall in between the cable modem and the switch (nor am I even sure that setup will work) however as I've never used cable before I'm unsure if the cable modem will have firewall built into it.
I'm thinking i could possibly stick a couple of gigabit nics in the linux server and use it as a firewall however I was planning on using it for a file server.
Does anyone have any pointers or issues with the setup? What would you do if you wanted to have a similar setup?
Thanks in advance.